I want to hold the hand inside you
I want to take a breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life
You go in shadows
You'll come apart and you'll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Colors your eyes with what's not there.

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew

A stranger's light comes on slowly
A stranger's heart without a home
You put your hands into your head
And then it's smiles cover your heart

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you

I think it's strange you never knew
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I think it's strange you never knew

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I think this is about being in love with someone who is pretty messed up, and trying your hardest to connect with them emotionally or mentally, but still not being able to do so. As an end result, you've tried so hard to connect to them that you've sort of faded into them, hence the "fade into you" part of the song. Furthermore, I believe the person whom you have lost yourself in hasn't even realized what's happened, hence the "strange you never knew" part of the song. The person is oblivious to how hard you've been trying, how lost you are, as well as how lost they are.

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UnregisteredMar 11, 2016 at 2:54 am

I have to agree with the first comment on the very top. Well said. I was in a toxic relationship while my x had dedicated this song to me. At the time I didn't care to listen to it but now reflecting I was on drugs very heavy and through everything away she tried so hard but "I never knew" and I always was in a dark place mentally" shadows" "colors your eyes with what's not there" I was blind to the drug and I thought it would all be okay but at the end I had lost everything. Very sad song. Thank God I'm in a better place away from that lifestyle. Thank you serra for everything you had done for me. God bless. I love you.

Believe that someone loves someone that has no idea. Reaches out to them with no returned love. And they feel their fading into the midst of their own soul. Invisible to them and the sorrow they feel. Having so much love on the inside that they should sense without a word being said.

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UnregisteredMar 16, 2015 at 9:04 am

Lyrics seem to be about some aloof, dark & mysterious character. I think she just wants to let him know that his unawareness seems strange to her. That's all I get from it. I try not to read way deeply into songs, cause the artist is the only one who really knows the point they are trying to get across.

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UnregisteredMay 16, 2012 at 3:28 am

She loves him and he doesn't know, hence " i think it's strange you never knew", like she was sending the signals but he just wasn't getting it. But "then a strangers light comes on slowly". He meets another girl. "a strangers heart without a home". Maybe someone who's heart is lost or maybe someone who is emotionally broken & he feels he can "fix" or "provide a home for" metephoriacally speaking, possibly. Anyway he falls in love with the new girl and the old girl is heartbroken over it. Still shocek that "he never knew".

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